Arch Guest with Wayland on Windows Host - Guest additions not working
Posted: 18. Dec 2020, 09:15
I have a Arch KDE Plasma installation as Guest on Windows 10 host. I have installed the latest Guest Additions package on the host. I also installed virtualbox-guest-utils package from the arch repo on the guest.
At the sddm login page, I have two possible options - Plasma (Wayland) and Plasma. The former is for a wayland session whereas the later is for a X11 session.
I can see "/usr/bin/VBoxClient -all" being executed by both sessions. However, the functionality provided (seamless mode, drag and drop, shared clipboard) does not seem to be working on wayland session. It works fine on X11 session. Is this expected ?
I am bit curious to understand how this works. Appreciate any pointers. Thanks.
At the sddm login page, I have two possible options - Plasma (Wayland) and Plasma. The former is for a wayland session whereas the later is for a X11 session.
I can see "/usr/bin/VBoxClient -all" being executed by both sessions. However, the functionality provided (seamless mode, drag and drop, shared clipboard) does not seem to be working on wayland session. It works fine on X11 session. Is this expected ?
I am bit curious to understand how this works. Appreciate any pointers. Thanks.